Touchscreens replacing buttons

[Good Plan Ted]

So I love my porker buttons and now these new EV versions screens as they are cheaper-sadly not reflected in the initial purchase cost.

90% of people are right handed so in UK this is a major safety issue. Levers and buttons are easy to learn to use without looking. Twenty seconds with your eyes off the road just to change the temperature? At 50mph the car will have travelled 488 yards…so maybe another reason to avoid these EV porkers?

[Discombobulate]

Good Plan Ted said:

So I love my porker buttons and now these new EV versions screens as they are cheaper-sadly not reflected in the initial purchase cost.

90% of people are right handed so in UK this is a major safety issue. Levers and buttons are easy to learn to use without looking. Twenty seconds with your eyes off the road just to change the temperature? At 50mph the car will have travelled 488 yards…so maybe another reason to avoid these EV porkers?

It's nowt do with EVs. Have you driven a Golf recently? It's happening everywhere.

[SV_WDC]

Good Plan Ted said:

So I love my porker buttons and now these new EV versions screens as they are cheaper

Incorrect

[Good Plan Ted]

Take the old macan central button array is going to be far more to manufacture and install -mechanical/wiring loom/pcb than all in one screen/chip, the EV cars increased in price but the interiors bland.

[Murph7355]

The idea generally is that you do not need to be pressing much. Use your voice.

Right now I don't find that a great solution... But can do most control in the Taycan without looking.

I doubt cost of manufacture is the main driver, though it probably will be a bit cheaper ultimately. Key IMO is the ability to cover so much more functionality with the one device.

[Glassman]

Discombobulate said:

It's nowt do with EVs. Have you driven a Golf recently? It's happening everywhere.

Got in it on a hot day and all the swiping and swishing to get the A/C to function wound me up.

[Boxster5]

Discombobulate said:

Good Plan Ted said:

So I love my porker buttons and now these new EV versions screens as they are cheaper-sadly not reflected in the initial purchase cost.

90% of people are right handed so in UK this is a major safety issue. Levers and buttons are easy to learn to use without looking. Twenty seconds with your eyes off the road just to change the temperature? At 50mph the car will have travelled 488 yards…so maybe another reason to avoid these EV porkers?

It's nowt do with EVs. Have you driven a Golf recently? It's happening everywhere.

Same with my wife’s Cupra Formentor - can’t wait to swap back to a car with physical buttons (and yes that means buying something older). Most modern cars are now touchscreen everything but the VW Group products are particularly badly designed and yes dangerous!

[Griffgrog]

I read that in future to get the highest NCAP rating, cars will have to have physical controls in the future -

https://etsc.eu/cars-will-need-buttons-not-just-to...

[RichT001]

Griffgrog said:

I read that in future to get the highest NCAP rating, cars will have to have physical controls in the future -

https://etsc.eu/cars-will-need-buttons-not-just-to...

Common sense prevails, at last.

[Jones the cat]

RichT001 said:

Griffgrog said:

I read that in future to get the highest NCAP rating, cars will have to have physical controls in the future -

https://etsc.eu/cars-will-need-buttons-not-just-to...

Common sense prevails, at last.

"if they don’t provide proper, physical switches for certain functions including indicators, hazard lights, sounding the horn, operating windscreen wipers"

cars have touch controls for those functions? if they do fine, but I can't see their directive making any difference as their criteria is more that found in a playstation game.

Edited by Jones the cat on Tuesday 4th March 20:54